Solution #4: Leave it as-is and (perhaps) change extras-testing as a whole.

The process could be left as-is and keep trusting authors for doing their job.

However, the whole extras-testing thing seem to discourage developement a lot. It takes less to write a program than to collect the required votes. This problem seems to be a side-effect of this long delay. So, instead of changing this, we should consider changing the extras-testing as a whole. While there are concerns about the delayed PR bug-fix releases, we cannot provide timely bug-fixes ourselves. Minor bug-fixes take forever to get promoted and the authors loose their interest or find another app to develop.